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The Acquisition of Spanish Pronunciation by Welsh Learners: Transfer from a Regional Variety of English Into Spanish University of Wollongong Research Online Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers Faculty of Arts, Social Sciences & Humanities 1-1-2016 The acquisition of Spanish pronunciation by Welsh learners: Transfer from a regional variety of English into Spanish Alfredo Herrero de Haro University of Wollongong, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://ro.uow.edu.au/lhapapers Part of the Arts and Humanities Commons, and the Law Commons Recommended Citation Herrero de Haro, Alfredo, "The acquisition of Spanish pronunciation by Welsh learners: Transfer from a regional variety of English into Spanish" (2016). Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers. 2237. https://ro.uow.edu.au/lhapapers/2237 Research Online is the open access institutional repository for the University of Wollongong. For further information contact the UOW Library: [email protected] The acquisition of Spanish pronunciation by Welsh learners: Transfer from a regional variety of English into Spanish Abstract Language teachers agree that the phonetic/phonological distance between a learner’s L1 and L2 is of vital importance in mastering the sounds of the L2; however, no attention is given to the phonetic/ phonological distance between the regional variety of the speaker’s L1 and the L2. After comparing linguistic peculiarities of English, and of Welsh English in particular, with Castilian Spanish, the author proceeds to study the interlanguage of advanced students of Spanish from Wales. This helps to explain positive and negative transfer from this variety of English into Spanish and assists in producing a catalogue of the interferences to be corrected. Finally, using coarticulatory processes, the author presents a list of exercises to eliminate some of the interferences found in Welsh learners of Spanish. Keywords spanish, acquisition, welsh, pronunciation, learners, regional, variety, transfer, into, english Disciplines Arts and Humanities | Law Publication Details Herrero de Haro, A. (2016). The acquisition of Spanish pronunciation by Welsh learners: Transfer from a regional variety of English into Spanish. Circulo de Linguistica Aplicada a la Comunicacion, 65 169-198. This journal article is available at Research Online: https://ro.uow.edu.au/lhapapers/2237 clacCÍRCULOclac de lingüística aplicada a la comunica ción 65/2016 THE ACQUISITION OF SPANISH PRONUNCIATION BY WELSH LEARNERS: TRANSFER FROM A REGIONAL VARIETY OF ENGLISH INTO SPANISH Alfredo Herrero de Haro University of Wollongong alfredo at uow.edu.au Abstract Language teachers agree that the phonetic/phonological distance between a learner’s L1 and L2 is of vital importance in mastering the sounds of the L2; however, no attention is given to the phonetic/phonological distance between the regional variety of the speaker’s L1 and the L2. After comparing linguistic peculiarities of English, and of Welsh English in particular, with Castilian Spanish, the author proceeds to study the interlanguage of advanced students of Spanish from Wales. This helps to explain positive and negative transfer from this variety of English into Spanish and assists in producing a catalogue of the interferences to be corrected. Finally, using coarticulatory processes, the author presents a list of exercises to eliminate some of the interferences found in Welsh learners of Spanish. A descriptive analysis of the learners’ interlanguage shows that the Alfredo Herrero de Haro. 2016. The acquisition of Spanish pronunciation by Welsh learners: transfer from a regional variety of English into Spanish Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación 65, 169-198. http://www.ucm.es/info/circulo/no65/herrero.pdf http://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/CLAC http://dx.doi.org/ © 2016 Alfredo Herrero de Haro Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación (clac) Universidad Complutense de Madrid. ISSN 1576-4737. http://www.ucm.es/info/circulo herrero: spanish pronunciation 170 phonetic/phonological distance between the regional variety of the speaker’s L1 and the L2 is what will influence this learning process the most. Keywords: positive transference, interference, Welsh English, Spanish. Contents 1. Introduction 171 2. Research methodology 174 2.1 Procedures 174 2.2 Spanish as a foreign language in Wales 175 2.3 The English language in Wales 176 2.4 Similarities and differences between the phonic systems of Spanish, RP and Welsh English 179 3. Results 183 3.1 Transferences between Welsh English and Spanish 183 3.1.1 Participants: the accents of G1, G2 and G3 184 3.1.2. Positive transferences of Welsh English into Spanish 185 3.1.3. Negative transferences of Welsh English into Spanish 186 4. Discussion 189 4.1 Summary of interferences 189 4.1.1 Overdifferentiation 189 4.1.2 Underdiferentiation 190 4.1.3 Reinterpretation 190 4.1.4 Substitution 190 4.2 Teaching Spanish pronunciation to Welsh students 191 4.2.1 Apocope of taps and trills and linking r 192 4.2.2 Gemination of consonants 193 4.2.3 Insertion of aspirations after voiceless stops 193 5. Conclusions 194 References 195 clac 65/2016, 169-198 herrero: spanish pronunciation 171 1. Introduction The study of L2 phonetic acquisition is complex, and this becomes apparent once we realise the great deal of existing disagreement on issues related to the acquisition of the L2 phonetic system. As we will see, negative transfer or interference (those features of the L1 that influence negatively the pronunciation of a learner in the L2), and positive transfer (those features of the L1 that are similar to the L2 and which make it easier for a speaker to pronounce the L2) have been widely studied. Virtually all scholars agree on the fact that mispronunciation of the L2 is due to negative transfer from the L1; however, there is no consensus on what causes this. There are some authors, such as Major (2008: 76), who believe that interferences are mainly caused by universals, while others believe that this is mainly due to an influence from the L1, such as Strange and Shafer (2008: 153); the debate is ongoing. However, we cannot ignore some obvious facts. As Strange and Shafer (2008: 153) explain: “The fact that native listeners can readily identify a) that a speaker is a late learner of their language and b) the native language of the speakers, (i.e., Spanish- accented English speakers; American-accented Japanese speakers) justifies the characterisation of the accented phonological patterns as being due, to a considerable extent, to interference from the native language phonology.” There are several features of L1 speech which offer numerous data about a speaker, such as social class, and region of origin. The analysis of the linguistic details present in a person’s L1 speech, especially if it is in a relaxed and spontaneous conversation (Silva-Corvalán & Enrique-Arias, 2001: 52), will enable us to create his/her sociolinguistic profile and identify his/her regional accent. Furthermore, as explained in Herrero de Haro and Andión Herrero (2011, 2012a, 2012b), regional identification is usually possible in both, the L1 and the L2. This supports the belief that L1 factors are more important than universals in L2 phonetic acquisition. Flege (1995) and Best (1995) also agree on the fact that the L1 shapes how the learner perceives the L2, giving more importance to L1 factors than to universals. As explained in Herrero de Haro and Andión Herrero (2011), the interferences that speakers of L2 present in their speech can tell us not only the L1 of a speaker, but also which regional variety of L1 they speak. This way of pronouncing a given language clac 65/2016, 169-198 herrero: spanish pronunciation 172 with certain characteristics of a person’s regional accent is what makes Welsh and English speakers of English have a different accent in Spanish. This is because learners access Spanish sounds through a filter which is particular to their first language, and more specifically, to their geolect. The Spanish accents of these speakers will present phonetic/phonological characteristics of their regional variety of English1, showing a good example of the effects of language contact. Speakers of Welsh English present language transfer from their regional accent into Spanish and these are caused by the instability of plurilingualism and diglossia (Appel & Muysken 1987). Moreno, (2002, p. 25), had this in mind when he said that: ”In the production of the L2, for example, we can observe an infinity of transferences from the L1, that will also depend on the language of origin and on its linguistic distance with the target language.” Furthermore, the L2 can also influence on the L1, proving that the phenomenon of transfer is not unidirectional (Flege, 1987). The two ideas presented by Moreno and considered also in Conxita (1997) have great importance in the learning process; however, in this paper I will not deal with the linguistic distance between English and Spanish, but with the linguistic distance between a geolect of English (Welsh English) and Castilian Spanish. This prompts the question: how important are the linguistic differences between different regional varieties of English in the mastering of Spanish pronunciation? As Hansen Edwards and Zampini (2008) explained: “Major research findings have shown that predicting areas of difficulty and explaining L2 phonological acquisition is much more complex than a straightforward contrastive analysis of the first Language (L1) and the second (Lado 1957).” Regarding this, Ioup (2008) said that: “some studies established that learners
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